Creating causal networks from monthly import and export data from WTO. causalTradeNetworks

Creating causal trade networks.

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General Process:

By the time trade data is aggregated to a national series, there is a lot of error and bias introduced.

This is out of curiosity if anything plausible will come out the other end.

This can be improved with bilateral, product-level, other economic, and alternative data is to come.

Some additional techniques like feature engineering might also lead to some interesting outcomes.